Obesity associated with increased brain age from midlife

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 47, Issue , 2016, Pages 63-70

  Ronan, Lisa ^a   Alexander Bloch, Aaron F ^b   Wagstyl, Konrad ^a   Farooqi, Sadaf ^c   Brayne, Carol ^d   Tyler, Lorraine K ^e   Fletcher, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF METABOLIC SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Obesity; Population based; Structural MRI; White matter volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN; BRAIN AGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE AREA; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ATROPHY; BODY SURFACE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; RISK; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATROPHY; BODY SURFACE AREA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OBESITY; RISK; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84983084227     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.07.010     Document Type: Article

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